I have a mac mini. It is cool although you do not get an iSight with it! I hate it! However, your user pic can have special effects.
Pop open Address Book.app and visit your user explanation entry and edit the picture, there should be a swirly icon that you can compose an effect with your pic! (NOTE: that may not take effect until a reboot!)

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I was just fooling around with the menubar in Finder when I found that whether you press the ‘option’ key you get some different options. Try it. visit on the Apple (top left) to show the menu, next press “option”. Notice some items change? Try it on the other menu’s (file, edit, etc).
One cool trick, whether you visit…

Not precisely a potential tip… so don’t rip me apart considering I know that isn’t high tech. Do you get annoyed by cluttered post-it’s crowding your dashboard? (See below)

A lot of times you can’t read them easily and your eyes just miss them. But I’ve found a work-around. First, open up Text Edit or your favor…

For those of you who have lost your Apple Remote or have an older Mac without an IR reciever, the new and improved Front Row included with Leopard now has keyboard commands. You can start Front Row with the icon in the Applications folder, but you can additionally start it with Command (⌘) + ESC. From there, UP is equivalent to + on the remote a…

You can change the volume in iTunes in its minimised window scheme by hovering the mighty mouse by it and using the scroll ball. that works regardless of whether iTunes is the active window or not.

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Make your mac stand out from the rest by customizing your log in screen!
Grab your favorite background image, save it as ‘background.jpg’ and execute the following from Terminal:
sudo cp background.jpg /System/Library/CoreServices/DefaultDesktop.jpg
(you need to be in the same directory as the background.jpg for the copy to work. Eg whe…

Press Control + T to swap the two characters before the cursor. Appel > Apple

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